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Meeting care-delivery needs

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, May 1, 2007

In today's fast-moving healthcare industry, it takes teamwork to meet the complex care-delivery needs of patients in a timely, cost-conscious way. As the primary bedside caregivers, care-delivery systems affect nurses. Therefore, to improve quality care, nurses need to be members of an interdisciplinary team, or at best, leading or chairing a team that involves quality improvement, process improvement, an evidence-based project, a research project, or a project to improve care in some way. To meet this need, consider the following ideas:

• Exhibit committee meeting rosters showing the interdisciplinary relationship between the committee members, the meeting agenda, goals, and progress toward/achievement of such goals
• Choose members of primary disciplines (e.g., medicine, pharmacy, informatics) and solicit short, personal narratives on the contribution of nurses to various projects
• Choose a project (i.e., quality improvement, process improvement) in which nurses participate. Exhibit the committee roster and meeting minutes, and show the contribution of nurses
• Show examples of nurses attending interdisciplinary rounds and the contributions nurses make to the treatment plan

Source: Adapted from HCPro's White Papers on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Force 12: Image of Nursing, December 2006. An HCPro, Inc. publication.

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